Another great day to take your bike on the bus in Phoenix! Gorgeous morning indeed! Talking more about Ignite Phoenix which Jeff Moriarty and I started talking about last week. Momentum is growing.
First Ride of 10 week training course for a Century Ride. This was an easy 10 mile ride through my area. Click Here for map of the route.
Sometimes its important to know how the bus works. You are in a public place, respect this fact and it is nicer for all involved.
It was a warmer day in Phoenix, summer is upon us. Twitter was all abuzz with Plurk today. I give a rundown.
First Video Post, let me know what you think. Is the motion too jerky? should I stop trying to be a movie star?
Meet up with Jeff Moriarty this weekend (if you can reference the name then you know how cool Jeff is already, if not then please look up Sherlock Holmes and eat some soap) to discuss getting Ignite Phoenix started up. The catalyst was a post on twitter regarding yet another tech networking group for finding and funding projects in the area. The general feeling for tech people is that these are more of the same: boring presentations trying to sell us on something we might be interested in but since the presenter is so worried about offending possible funders they cut it down to something that is boring and predictable.
Ignite is an O’reilly concept with the intent of getting the presentations down to a minimum but throwing a bunch together for diversity and unpredictability. Then you let the audience congregate with the ones they like the most and take it from there. The focus is on the culture and if the projects succeed that is great, if not then cool people got together and laughed a lot.
Right now we are looking for venues to hold it at and presenters to present. Give me a shout in the comments there or at the projects website here.
So I am making the move to CFL’s as they save energy and last forever. What I didn’t know is that regular CFL’s don’t work with Dimmers. For a technical explanation see here.
So now I am gonna get to run back to Home Depot and get different ones tomorrow. =)
Good article on saving gas, but also for driving like a sane person.
6 ways you’re wasting gas - May. 21, 2008
One things they leave out: stop driving your car. Take the bus, ride your bike. The next time you complain about gas prices think about how you can avoid having to use any at all.
It might get a lot of flack from Republicans and Truckers but the reality is that a lot of people are buying them.
The Prius went on sale more than a decade ago in Japan. But its popularity quickly is growing amid surging gas prices and environmental concerns. More than half of the total number of Priuses have been sold in North America.
Toyota’s Prius hits one million mark in sales - Phoenix Business Journal:
So I finally got off my lazy butt and got involved with the effort to make change happen in the country that I love. Last Saturday I went to Chandler Arizona and met with a bunch of really enthusiastic Obama Supporters and Canvassed Democratic Voters to sign up for Mail In Balloting. It was one of the more rewarding things I have done in many years and I am ready to do it again.
Some neat Statistics that I overheard:
-80% of voters registered for Mail In Ballots actually vote, compared to 40% or worse for regular registered voters
-When there is a record number of voters actually voting Democrats win the elections.
Here are some pictures, it was a lovely beautiful day:
